Tag: tectonic plate

A long-debated missing tectonic plate beneath Northern Canada has been confirmed with 3D mapping technology.

We might be missing a few more.

You may have seen it in forests, and may have dismissed it as an eerie curiosity - a type of ...

For the first time, geophysicist in New Zealand will place seismic sensors deep into a geological fault to record the ...

The Earthquake A major earthquake hit a remote part of Pakistan (near the border with Iran), claiming 45 lives and ...

(c) Brown University Millions of years ago, an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon oceanic plate used to sit between the ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 some 142 kilometers off the ...

A small, yet frightening earthquake, registered at 5.9 magnitude, sent shivers down people's spines all the way from Ottawa, Canada ...

In the first ever-survey of its kind, geologists have managed to discover a chain of massive underwater volcanoes, some as ...

This week's picture shows the Eurasian and the American tectonic plates, as seen from underwater. In a way, you could ...

Plate tectonics is one of the most important theories, from the point of view of its practical effects on society ...

As a consequence of last Friday's devastating earthquake near the coast of Japan, the nation's most powerful recorded earthquake to ...

Amber is not very common, but you can't say it's really uncommon either. Bugs in amber - that's rare, but ...